Literature usually begets literature.

Sanity is a cozy lie.

A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it.

The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste.

A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning.

What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.

I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.

In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.

Surrealism in painting amounted to little more than the contents of a meagerly stocked dream world: a few witty fantasies, mostly wet dreams and agoraphobic nightmares.

It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.

A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated spiritualism: a secular, ostensibly scientific way of affirming the primacy of "spirit" over matter.

Animal allies are all around, offering beauty and connection.

My politics is my religion, my religion is my politics.

Sometimes in the quest for enlightenment the only thing that gets lighter is your wallet.

It is only by dispelling the clouds and phantoms of religion that we shall discover truth, reason and morality.

A photograph is a picture and no more true or false than any other depiction; why is that so hard to comprehend?

Be at the pains of putting down every single item of expenditure whatsoever every day which could possibly be twisted into a professional expense and remember to lump in all the doubtfulls.

The boss is never your friend, even if you're sleeping with him.

Look to yourself for the answer - stop calling your girlfriends and stop calling your mom - you know if it's working or not, you either feel like a goddess or you don't

The number one reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors.

With each expression of love, the entire world is touched.